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by Emeline Vidal

No decision has been made yet as to whether or not Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should be sentenced to death or life in prison for the deadly 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.

According to Reuters, the same jurors who found Tsarnaev guilty of killing three people and wounding 264 finished their first day of deliberations on Thursday without reaching a verdict.

By Catlin Spencer

A report by Russian opposition says that hundreds of Russian troops have died fighting in Ukraine and that it has cost Russia roughly one billion in US dollars.

According to The National Post, the report was published Tuesday by opposition activist Ilya Yashin, who completed the research after the death of the original author Boris Nemtsov in February.

Entitled “Putin War,” the 64 page report draws on media accounts, testimonies from relatives and other representatives of dead soldiers as well as confidential sources.

However, the Russian Defence Ministry denies that any of their soldiers have fought in Ukraine, those who have joined the armed separatists were only volunteers.

By Saturn De Los Angeles

192 forest fires have been recorded so far this year in Quebec, according to the province's forest fire prevention agency, SOPFEU.

In a report by CBC News, SOPFEU representative Eloise Richard says that humans are to blame for burning dead leaves and other waste.

The report comes as a fire destroyed the scale of two football fields worth of vegetation last week in a town near Sept-Îles.

Most of Gaspésie and the Lower St. Lawrence is under high risk, while Southern Quebec is under an open fire ban.

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By Catlin Spencer

Medics are denouncing Liberal Health Minister Gaetan Barrette’s legislation which would impose patient quotas on doctors.

By Catlin Spencer
While a second day of tornadoes seems unlikely, Oklahoma declared a state of emergency on Thursday.
According to CNN, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and Texas are all recovering from tornadoes, heavy winds and dangerous amounts of rain.
The National Weather Service had 50 reports of tornadoes in all four states, nearly 9 inches of rain fell in parts of Nebraska and 3 inches fell in parts of north Texas every hour.
At least thirty people were injured.

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by Patricia Petit Liang

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake lifted the city of Baltimore’s curfew on Sunday

According to Reuters, the curfew was originally imposed in order to discourage looting and arson following the funeral of Freddie Gray - whose death while in police custody has inspired protests all over the United States.

The mayor has promised that the Maryland National Guard will leave Baltimore by next week.